XANIMAL | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I didn't even want to

0:01 Speaker 1: talk over the end. Just let it fade out. That

0:03 Speaker 1: sounds so good. That is the Awakening and that is

0:05 Speaker 1: ex Animal And let me get this up here right now.

0:07 Speaker 1: Joining us via restream. We've got Noel Hampton and Claude

0:11 Speaker 1: McCann with us. Hello, good morning, Hey Hey, can you

0:15 Speaker 1: hear me? Yes, yes, I can hear you, Noel, Claude,

0:19 Speaker 1: can you can you hear us? Cloud Oh, we can't

0:24 Speaker 1: hear you.

0:25 Speaker 2: We can't hear you. Get Claude.

0:27 Speaker 1: I cannot hear Claude, but uh, Cloude will adjust his settings.

0:33 Speaker 1: I'm sure. Oh, there we go. I hear Claude, Claude.

0:37 Speaker 1: Can you hear us?

0:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, I can hear you.

0:41 Speaker 1: Oh, perfect, perfect, Well, yeah, welcome to the show.

0:43 Speaker 3: Yeah.

0:44 Speaker 1: I don't know if you could hear what I was saying,

0:45 Speaker 1: but I was saying, I love that track, The Awakening,

0:48 Speaker 1: and that is with that features. I don't know how

0:51 Speaker 1: to pronounce this, Nagavali nagavaliolly is that? Who does the

0:57 Speaker 1: vocal on that?

1:00 Speaker 4: So I do the the she does the more Indian

1:03 Speaker 4: traditional vocal, all the rest of it, Oh.

1:06 Speaker 1: The rest of it's okay, awesome. Yeah, oh beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, no,

1:09 Speaker 1: it sounds really good, really good. I love that song.

1:13 Speaker 2: So what thank you?

1:14 Speaker 1: So what what do what do each of you do? So, Noel,

1:17 Speaker 1: I assume do you do most of the vocals on

1:20 Speaker 1: on all the X Animal stuff for Yeah, we're actually

1:24 Speaker 1: called Oh I apologize now, I know why you were chuckling.

1:33 Speaker 2: Oh I I kind of like it ex Animal.

1:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's animal, Okay, all right, yeah.

1:40 Speaker 4: It's animal, you know what, it's teach their own also,

1:43 Speaker 4: let even think of it what they want to think

1:45 Speaker 4: of it. Sure, sure, yeah, so I because we've only

1:48 Speaker 4: been this is our second track together and Claude. Claude

1:53 Speaker 4: and Ken are the producers on this particular project. Okay,

1:58 Speaker 4: I do have some some production in but in my

2:00 Speaker 4: own project, I'm a I'm a producer. But with this,

2:03 Speaker 4: with these guys, it's kind of fun to just let

2:05 Speaker 4: them have that, have at it, and then they send

2:07 Speaker 4: me a track and then I get to do more

2:09 Speaker 4: of the melody, vocal lyric kind of a thing with

2:11 Speaker 4: this project.

2:12 Speaker 2: So it's really fun for me.

2:14 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, and then so so it's kind of a well, Claude,

2:19 Speaker 1: how would how would you describe his Animal. I mean,

2:21 Speaker 1: it sounds like it's kind of a collective thing, but

2:25 Speaker 1: how do you describe the project.

2:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a collective electronic music project. But you know,

2:33 Speaker 3: and also we try tovolve, you know, involve other people

2:36 Speaker 3: in the in our Austin music scene here. You know,

2:41 Speaker 3: there's there's another Ken Christiansen who's who's part of his animal,

2:47 Speaker 3: and he had some other things going on during this.

2:50 Speaker 3: So yeah, this was me and and Noel, you know,

2:54 Speaker 3: and I'm kind of the synth man and and programming

2:59 Speaker 3: and stuff like that.

3:00 Speaker 4: Okay, he's modest, he's kind of a he's kind of.

3:05 Speaker 2: A synth wizard.

3:06 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Yeah, so.

3:09 Speaker 4: We had done I don't know if you had heard

3:11 Speaker 4: our first track called love acxis.

3:13 Speaker 1: And not only have I heard it, I intend to

3:15 Speaker 1: play it at the end of our conversation because that's

3:17 Speaker 1: another great track. I love it. Yeah.

3:20 Speaker 4: That's kind of how this thing started, was that they

3:22 Speaker 4: had this track for love Access and they were like,

3:25 Speaker 4: maybe we should get you know, our friend Noel to like,

3:29 Speaker 4: actually Ken had never even heard of me, but Cloude

3:31 Speaker 4: and I have known each other for years, and they're like,

3:34 Speaker 4: maybe we should get Noel to sing on this, you know,

3:36 Speaker 4: let's see what we could do as a collaboration. And

3:39 Speaker 4: when we went in on that track, it was just

3:41 Speaker 4: like such a vibe and we just had so much

3:44 Speaker 4: fun and it was really easy, and we were like,

3:46 Speaker 4: maybe we should do more like this. So their thing

3:49 Speaker 4: kind of became our thing in a way, so it

3:51 Speaker 4: sort of turned into his animal. But yeah, then we

3:55 Speaker 4: were sort of talking in the beginning about what it

3:57 Speaker 4: should be like, and it was like, well, we all

4:00 Speaker 4: bands like Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, you know, that kind

4:04 Speaker 4: of thing, zero seven, all those things that had like

4:07 Speaker 4: multiple people come in and h and join them, and

4:13 Speaker 4: so all since the beginning, specifically, I have had in

4:16 Speaker 4: my head to use Knagavalli on a track, and just

4:20 Speaker 4: the times we're in you know, like we we have

4:23 Speaker 4: another dance track that we're kind of getting ready to

4:27 Speaker 4: to to work on here that's almost done.

4:29 Speaker 2: But I just felt like, man, my spirit is a.

4:33 Speaker 1: Little broken right now, understand, and I.

4:36 Speaker 4: Just felt like I needed I needed, like to work

4:39 Speaker 4: on a track with a little more kind of spiritual like,

4:42 Speaker 4: you know, vibe, a little more like what's happening now

4:44 Speaker 4: with people, you know, and Claude just nailed it, like

4:49 Speaker 4: just like, yeah, what he delivered was exactly what I

4:52 Speaker 4: wanted to work on.

4:54 Speaker 1: So now that makes sense. You know, the press material

4:56 Speaker 1: mentions themes of you know, hope and transcendence and emotion release,

5:00 Speaker 1: and I do think it really comes through in a

5:03 Speaker 1: track like the Awakening. I mean, that's that's what I

5:05 Speaker 1: got from it, you know, just listening into the track

5:08 Speaker 1: before I'd even read anything about the project and what

5:11 Speaker 1: you're doing with it. Are you? Are you both in Austin, Texas? Okay? Great,

5:19 Speaker 1: great sun?

5:20 Speaker 4: All three all three of us, all three of us

5:22 Speaker 4: in Xanimal and Knackavali, we all live in Austin.

5:25 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Yeah, I mean I'm not surprised, you know,

5:29 Speaker 1: to hear something interesting like this project to come out

5:31 Speaker 1: of there, because there's such a scene there. There's so

5:34 Speaker 1: many we've we've actually over the years, we've had a

5:36 Speaker 1: lot of artists from that area, uh specifically on the show,

5:39 Speaker 1: and there's this so much great I mean, do you

5:42 Speaker 1: think do you think it's helpful being in a place

5:45 Speaker 1: like Austin, Texas where you're surrounded by by so many

5:50 Speaker 1: creative people versus if you were in a place where

5:52 Speaker 1: maybe there just wasn't a lot happening musically, I mean,

5:55 Speaker 1: or or maybe not. I mean, maybe you'd be creating

5:57 Speaker 1: this music no matter where you lived. But but I

6:00 Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like in Austin, Texas, you're

6:02 Speaker 1: just surrounded by so much creativity that it would be

6:05 Speaker 1: really inspiring.

6:08 Speaker 2: It's it's unbelievable, honestly.

6:10 Speaker 3: Like and also the scene is very it's just real supportive. Yeah,

6:18 Speaker 3: you know, likes diferent competition, but it's it's it's really

6:24 Speaker 3: like everybody in all the different genres is really supportive, and.

6:29 Speaker 2: We all collaborate a lot.

6:30 Speaker 4: Like we all do shows together with like, you know,

6:33 Speaker 4: different kinds of acts on the same bill. There's like,

6:37 Speaker 4: you know, a deep Americana scene here, there's a there's

6:40 Speaker 4: a cool like indie electro and rock and roll scene.

6:44 Speaker 4: There's like punk rock. It's but everyone kind of knows

6:47 Speaker 4: each other. I mean a lot of people do, and

6:49 Speaker 4: we all see each other a lot at different events,

6:52 Speaker 4: and so we've definitely have Like I lived in you know,

6:55 Speaker 4: I came up in the San Francisco Bay area.

6:58 Speaker 2: I lived in l A for a while.

7:00 Speaker 4: I've just never seen a music community I mean, we

7:03 Speaker 4: had a good community in the Bay Area, but it

7:04 Speaker 4: was so spread apart. You know, it's like East Bay,

7:07 Speaker 4: South Bay, and it's just hard to kind of get

7:09 Speaker 4: to each other's gigs. But in Austin, we are like

7:12 Speaker 4: five minutes, ten minutes away from somebody's show at any

7:15 Speaker 4: given moment. So it makes us a tighter community. You know.

7:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fantastic. So what's kind of the Obviously you've

7:22 Speaker 1: got you know, the Awakening and you know later, well

7:25 Speaker 1: we'll play love Access. But are you are you continuing

7:28 Speaker 1: to make music together now as as animal? Is this

7:31 Speaker 1: going to be? I mean, what's kind of the long

7:33 Speaker 1: term plan? Are you going to do an EP? Are

7:34 Speaker 1: you going to do an album where you're going to

7:36 Speaker 1: keep doing singles? I mean I assume you're going to

7:37 Speaker 1: continue to work together.

7:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, what are we doing that as single and then

7:42 Speaker 3: think about doing the stuff?

7:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's more like the adulting

7:48 Speaker 4: of life that it gets in the way. Oh yeah,

7:51 Speaker 4: we all have like different projects that we do, you know,

7:55 Speaker 4: like I have a band called The Bell Sounds that

7:57 Speaker 4: I'm you know, the lead everything on, producer, writer, and uh,

8:04 Speaker 4: it's like a synthpop band in Austin.

8:06 Speaker 2: Claude has like five bands Claude.

8:09 Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, yeah, that's good.

8:13 Speaker 2: So this is a fun thing. But we we definitely

8:16 Speaker 2: want to make more music together.

8:17 Speaker 4: It's just a matter of finding a minute to get together, right, right.

8:22 Speaker 1: So what is the creative process like in a in

8:25 Speaker 1: a project like this, I mean, who who kind of

8:27 Speaker 1: comes up with the uh you know on these like

8:29 Speaker 1: on these two songs that we're playing today, Like, you know,

8:32 Speaker 1: how did how did these come about? What's the process

8:34 Speaker 1: and maybe maybe the two songs had to distinctly different processes.

8:38 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm curious about how that works.

8:42 Speaker 3: Well, it's will get basically, get a musical track together

8:48 Speaker 3: and in love access It was Ken and I that

8:50 Speaker 3: did it, and we'll and you'll send it to Noel.

8:54 Speaker 3: Of course she'll come in, but lots of times she

8:57 Speaker 3: actually we just send it to her and she sings

8:59 Speaker 3: it at her own studio. Yeah and back. So but

9:03 Speaker 3: when we go back and we talk about a concept,

9:08 Speaker 3: you know what are concept is going to be?

9:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, like lyrically we have a we have an idea

9:15 Speaker 4: of kind of going in or like a vibe going in,

9:18 Speaker 4: So that I have something to kind of bounce off of.

9:21 Speaker 4: But like I said, this is fun for me because

9:23 Speaker 4: normally I'm the one that in my band that makes

9:26 Speaker 4: all the music and I sit here for hours nerding out.

9:28 Speaker 4: But this time I just get like some beautiful, amazing

9:31 Speaker 4: thing just delivered to me, and I go.

9:33 Speaker 2: Oh cool, Yeah, this is fun. It's the whole new

9:36 Speaker 2: reality for me.

9:38 Speaker 1: Yeah.

9:38 Speaker 4: But yeah, we we definitely are like collaborative and stuff.

9:42 Speaker 4: We were kind of hoping that Ken would have time

9:44 Speaker 4: to because he's a great DJ, and we were hoping

9:47 Speaker 4: that he would have time to do like a really

9:49 Speaker 4: cool remix of this song of the Awakening, So we're

9:52 Speaker 4: hanging at some point he can do that. Claude is

9:55 Speaker 4: also working on a remix of the Awakening and for

9:59 Speaker 4: our last track, we got how many like different DJs,

10:02 Speaker 4: like four or five did.

10:03 Speaker 2: Remixes of Access. Yeah, so we're kind of putting that

10:07 Speaker 2: out too.

10:08 Speaker 1: So I'm really curious about that because that's interesting. I

10:10 Speaker 1: was looking at your band camp and I saw that

10:11 Speaker 1: love Access. Yeah it's got multiple different remix I mean,

10:15 Speaker 1: how cool is that when when you've done something that

10:18 Speaker 1: that other people wanted them take and and and put

10:20 Speaker 1: their own stamp on and remix it. I mean that's

10:23 Speaker 1: got to be really gratifying, right, Yeah, yes, you.

10:29 Speaker 3: Know, and you can hear different areas. I mean we

10:32 Speaker 3: our stuff has put out myself and can't have a

10:36 Speaker 3: label called new music new human music. Okay, we have

10:40 Speaker 3: some on it, but his animal is part is part

10:42 Speaker 3: of that is one of our main things.

10:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, on that label.

10:47 Speaker 3: And we kind of the DJs. We kind of have

10:50 Speaker 3: a DJ side to it. And he knows a lot

10:52 Speaker 3: of a lot of people who do that kind of

10:54 Speaker 3: production and remixes.

10:55 Speaker 4: So okay, Yeah, he came up in that world and

10:59 Speaker 4: like has toured all over the world doing that kind

11:02 Speaker 4: of thing. So he's made a lot, made a lot

11:04 Speaker 4: of friends and connections.

11:05 Speaker 2: He still does it.

11:06 Speaker 4: I think he's maybe he's even out there right now.

11:09 Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but he's one of those guys that

11:12 Speaker 4: has like hands and a million different pots. I don't

11:14 Speaker 4: know how he keeps up with it, honestly, but but yeah,

11:18 Speaker 4: it's been for It's really fun for me because I've

11:21 Speaker 4: never had anybody do that with anything that I've produced

11:25 Speaker 4: or created, So for me, it was a new experience

11:27 Speaker 4: and it was like wow, like just to hear what

11:30 Speaker 4: part of the song they would choose, or what part

11:32 Speaker 4: of my vocal or if they even use my vocal.

11:34 Speaker 2: At all or whatever, you know.

11:37 Speaker 4: And when we did this song, when we did The Awakening,

11:39 Speaker 4: I thought, I thought it would be really interesting to see,

11:41 Speaker 4: like I could imagine some people remixing the song without

11:44 Speaker 4: ever using any of mine and just using Naga Vali

11:47 Speaker 4: because she's so magical, you know. I think it could

11:50 Speaker 4: be a really cool like world you know, kind of

11:53 Speaker 4: edim situation or something. But yeah, hopefully we can get

11:57 Speaker 4: some people to remix it.

11:58 Speaker 2: That'd be fun.

11:59 Speaker 1: Now do these songs get at any point? Do they

12:02 Speaker 1: get performed live? I would imagine that would be a

12:06 Speaker 1: challenge maybe to pull that together, But I don't know.

12:11 Speaker 2: I would love to, but I guess we need a

12:13 Speaker 2: little bit more material.

12:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, But also I've been trying to think of how

12:19 Speaker 3: we can you know, how we can do it. Uh,

12:23 Speaker 3: there's a there's a way, but we're getting to that.

12:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we could probably do it in a

12:29 Speaker 4: sense of like if we're doing if they're doing like

12:32 Speaker 4: a New Human showcase or something like that, we could

12:35 Speaker 4: probably get up there and do you know, like the

12:38 Speaker 4: couple tracks we have and just use tracks. If Nagavali's

12:41 Speaker 4: not there, we can use her track or whatever.

12:44 Speaker 1: You know.

12:44 Speaker 4: In my band, we perform with live musicians and track,

12:47 Speaker 4: so it's definitely possible to use things like that. But

12:50 Speaker 4: but Claude can play the sense live and stuff like that,

12:53 Speaker 4: So I think it would be really fun if we

12:54 Speaker 4: did that. We may maybe we don't need to wait

12:57 Speaker 4: until we have too much more to just kind of

12:59 Speaker 4: pop up and say here we are, this is what

13:00 Speaker 4: we do, right.

13:01 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I can imagine how that would be a challenge.

13:06 Speaker 1: So what's so what is next for for his animal?

13:10 Speaker 1: What's what's kind of the next? Uh? I mean, do

13:12 Speaker 1: you have another single that you're working on? Now?

13:16 Speaker 3: We do?

13:16 Speaker 1: We do?

13:17 Speaker 4: They made this track that's like, it's so cool, Like

13:21 Speaker 4: I kind of describe it as like disco, like Prince

13:24 Speaker 4: type disco track.

13:26 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm intrigued.

13:27 Speaker 2: It's it's a jam.

13:29 Speaker 4: It's a it's a serious jam, and I'm just like

13:32 Speaker 4: trying my hardest to like find a way to live

13:36 Speaker 4: up to how cool this track is.

13:38 Speaker 2: My lyrics and melody.

13:41 Speaker 4: We'll figure it out, we'll figure it out. But it's

13:46 Speaker 4: just such a cool track, and I just want to

13:48 Speaker 4: make sure it's like, yeah, this is it. So but

13:51 Speaker 4: we're we're pretty we're pretty far along on that. We

13:54 Speaker 4: just have to kind of start putting all those pieces

13:56 Speaker 4: together and and then get that out and then you know,

13:59 Speaker 4: I don't know, it's it's just a matter of these

14:00 Speaker 4: guys continuing to get together and you know, make some

14:04 Speaker 4: make some music when they have some free time and

14:07 Speaker 4: send it over.

14:08 Speaker 1: Absolutely.

14:08 Speaker 3: I mean when you did when we did Love Access,

14:11 Speaker 3: we kind of had an idea that we would be

14:15 Speaker 3: like have eighties elements and that would kind of be

14:19 Speaker 3: our style. But we've kind of gone off that a

14:24 Speaker 3: little bit, but we still have that in there, but

14:27 Speaker 3: I mean it's not yeah. Yeah.

14:30 Speaker 4: I think also, like what we talked about in the

14:33 Speaker 4: beginning was like maybe that we didn't need to define

14:37 Speaker 4: this project as much because when you do your own projects,

14:41 Speaker 4: you get really like sucked into like genre based stuff

14:45 Speaker 4: where you're like I do this, I do that and stuff.

14:48 Speaker 4: So for us creatively, this is such a fun thing

14:51 Speaker 4: to be able to just go what are you feeling

14:53 Speaker 4: right now, what do you want to do? You know,

14:55 Speaker 4: and not have such constraints on this particular project. I

14:59 Speaker 4: think that would be really cool to not have to

15:02 Speaker 4: feel like we have to fit into some box.

15:05 Speaker 3: You know.

15:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think and I can say too

15:08 Speaker 1: just from my own experience as a musician, I think

15:11 Speaker 1: it's always more exciting when you don't think about what,

15:15 Speaker 1: you know, genre, something is supposed to be. You don't

15:19 Speaker 1: try to fit it into a box. You're just do

15:22 Speaker 1: what you think sounds good. You just make the music

15:25 Speaker 1: that you want to make without worrying about anything else.

15:27 Speaker 1: And I think that's the best way to do it.

15:30 Speaker 1: And that's how you get the most authentic sounding stuff

15:33 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, is just by doing

15:35 Speaker 1: what you want to do rather than worrying about, well,

15:37 Speaker 1: it's got to fit this, it's got to be able

15:39 Speaker 1: to be in this category, it's got to fit this format.

15:42 Speaker 1: We got to get it on this radio station, you know,

15:45 Speaker 1: whatever it is.

15:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's kind of a lot of pressure do one thing.

15:53 Speaker 3: So much in the business is organized towards.

15:55 Speaker 4: What do you do?

15:56 Speaker 3: Where can you put you?

15:57 Speaker 1: Yeah?

16:00 Speaker 2: I mean true, they want it. They want to put

16:02 Speaker 2: you in a in a box, right yeah.

16:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, And and part of that and and part of

16:06 Speaker 1: that is just you know, that's how you market things,

16:08 Speaker 1: and and so that that isn't necessary, you know. I'm

16:11 Speaker 1: I've I've lived on both sides of the business of

16:14 Speaker 1: you know, the business side and the creative side, and

16:16 Speaker 1: and and I But the way I've always thought of

16:19 Speaker 1: it is, you know, as far as the creating the art,

16:22 Speaker 1: whether it's music or any kind of art, just just

16:24 Speaker 1: make what you want to make. And then once that's

16:27 Speaker 1: done and you're happy with it, that's when you figure

16:29 Speaker 1: the other part out, you know, the how do you

16:32 Speaker 1: market it, how do you you know, where do you

16:33 Speaker 1: place it? On? All that, But that shouldn't even enter

16:36 Speaker 1: your mind until you're done creating whatever it is you're creating.

16:40 Speaker 1: Everything else can be figured out later.

16:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, because if you if that's the dream, isn't it.

16:47 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean I think practically that's how

16:50 Speaker 1: you have to do it, because even if you're trying

16:52 Speaker 1: to figure out the other part while you're creating the music,

16:55 Speaker 1: you know, those other plans are gonna inevitably have to

16:57 Speaker 1: change anyway, So you might as well just not be

16:59 Speaker 1: thinking about that at all while you're creating, and then

17:02 Speaker 1: and then worry about the rest later, you know. And

17:05 Speaker 1: there's probably some very very successful people in the music

17:08 Speaker 1: industry who will tell me that everything I just said

17:10 Speaker 1: is wrong, and and they probably have platinum records and

17:14 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. So but so at the end of

17:17 Speaker 1: the day, what do I know. But that's how I

17:18 Speaker 1: think of it.

17:21 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and there's just so many pressures. Things are

17:24 Speaker 2: not easy.

17:25 Speaker 4: It's it's a lot of pressure in every business right now,

17:28 Speaker 4: every everywhere, everyone's kind of dealing with a lot of

17:31 Speaker 4: like stress. So I think this for us just needs

17:34 Speaker 4: to feel like, you know, something that is just wow,

17:38 Speaker 4: it's exciting and happy and lovely when we get together

17:40 Speaker 4: and we make cool music and like that's literally that's enough.

17:45 Speaker 4: I mean, if people hear it, yay, if people love

17:48 Speaker 4: it yay. Yeah, I want people to hear it and

17:50 Speaker 4: love it and pass it on. But it really this

17:53 Speaker 4: particular project for me just needs to feel more about

17:56 Speaker 4: like creation joy, you know, because everything else is really

18:01 Speaker 4: hard and we all have our own projects that we're

18:03 Speaker 4: also in our own businesses and things that we do

18:06 Speaker 4: to make day daytime money, you know, right, so exactly,

18:11 Speaker 4: so it's hard, man, And so this is just like

18:14 Speaker 4: these guys are extremely creative. I have so much trust

18:19 Speaker 4: in their in their creative process, Like I would not

18:23 Speaker 4: just let them handmat track if I didn't trust what

18:26 Speaker 4: their aesthetic was, you know, And so it's super fun

18:30 Speaker 4: to just kind of see like what comes next. They

18:32 Speaker 4: actually sent me, like when we were doing Love Access,

18:36 Speaker 4: they sent me like five other track options or something,

18:41 Speaker 4: and all of them were super cool. So I don't

18:43 Speaker 4: even know what happened to those, Claude, what happened to those.

18:48 Speaker 1: It's a good problem to have, by the way, So

18:53 Speaker 1: I haven't asked the I haven't asked the most obvious question.

18:56 Speaker 1: Where does the name's animal come from? What does it mean?

19:02 Speaker 2: Cloth?

19:03 Speaker 3: It's just kind of a sixty eighties name.

19:06 Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, that's valid.

19:11 Speaker 4: Had we just made a big list of like, you know,

19:15 Speaker 4: kind of intriguing like sort of words that to me,

19:19 Speaker 4: it's sort of like we're we're all kind of one

19:24 Speaker 4: one type of being, even though we're all so different,

19:27 Speaker 4: and it sort of like puts us under this, like

19:29 Speaker 4: we're all animals, but maybe we're all just a little

19:31 Speaker 4: bit weird and different and strange. And to me, it's

19:34 Speaker 4: kind of like strange strange people, Like is animal kind

19:38 Speaker 4: of cool people?

19:39 Speaker 2: Strange people of music, you know what I mean.

19:41 Speaker 4: And so it's sort of like embodies like the humanness

19:44 Speaker 4: of just like you know, what is this tribe?

19:47 Speaker 2: It's like a tribe almost, you know.

19:49 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah I like that.

19:51 Speaker 2: Yeah.

19:51 Speaker 3: So yeah, and it's got some exotic exoticness to it.

19:57 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Uh that makes sense.

20:01 Speaker 2: It looks cool.

20:02 Speaker 3: We haven't we haven't or anything like that.

20:06 Speaker 1: Right, gotcha understood, understood. So in a moment, we're gonna

20:17 Speaker 1: play uh, Love Access the original mix, and you know what,

20:20 Speaker 1: we'll we'll let you go in a minute and then

20:21 Speaker 1: we're going to hit that track. But uh, what what

20:24 Speaker 1: should we know about this? I mean you touched on

20:26 Speaker 1: it a little bit, but anything you want us to

20:28 Speaker 1: know about Love Access? Are there any other people who

20:30 Speaker 1: are on it that we should know about? Or anything

20:32 Speaker 1: about the production you want us to know?

20:37 Speaker 3: See, now, that was the three of us.

20:40 Speaker 2: That was just the three of us.

20:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to me, it was like pretty obviously

20:45 Speaker 4: like leaning into uh, you know, dance disco, dancy eighties vibe,

20:54 Speaker 4: and so immediately my mind went to the club and

20:58 Speaker 4: like just that that moment when you're at a club

21:02 Speaker 4: and you kind of see that that person you get

21:06 Speaker 4: that vibe from somebody and all of a sudden sort

21:09 Speaker 4: of you know, if you meet them or you start

21:11 Speaker 4: dancing with them, and the world kind of just disappears

21:13 Speaker 4: around you almost and you know, maybe it's a one

21:17 Speaker 4: night thing. You never know, it's just like a big spark,

21:21 Speaker 4: and that kind of a thing is just sort of

21:22 Speaker 4: like tapping into that real intimate, special moment, but at

21:27 Speaker 4: a dance club essentially.

21:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, cool, I like that, So we'll play that.

21:32 Speaker 1: We'll play that in a moment, and then later on

21:34 Speaker 1: the show a five times. I might even play one

21:36 Speaker 1: of the remixes, because I personally I love remixes, but

21:40 Speaker 1: also too before we let you go, where where's the

21:43 Speaker 1: best place to go online to keep up with everything

21:45 Speaker 1: that X Animal is doing? And of course, uh we should

21:48 Speaker 1: mention two new human records if you want to. I'm

21:51 Speaker 1: looking at the band campage for that. There's there's some

21:53 Speaker 1: some stuff on there. But where where should people go

21:56 Speaker 1: to keep up with is Animal?

21:59 Speaker 3: There's an human music dot com.

22:03 Speaker 4: Okay, and we also have we have Instagram, and we

22:07 Speaker 4: have Instagram under under his Animal, but we don't quite

22:11 Speaker 4: yet have TikTok. But I have a TikTok under the

22:14 Speaker 4: bell sounds and stuff. But we will eventually get that.

22:17 Speaker 4: It's just another thing to manage. But I do have

22:19 Speaker 4: Insta and uh and and uh Facebook right now?

22:23 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, fantastic Well.

22:25 Speaker 2: And obviously on all streaming platforms too.

22:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely that's essential. Yeah. Well, Claude and Noel,

22:32 Speaker 1: thank you both for joining us today. By the way,

22:34 Speaker 1: I'm just curious, is it like super hot where you

22:36 Speaker 1: guys are in Austin, Texas? Is it triple digits?

22:40 Speaker 4: Honestly, we've we've had a like the mildest summer yet

22:46 Speaker 4: it we've had one day where it hit one hundred

22:49 Speaker 4: all the way up until today. Well not today, it's

22:51 Speaker 4: going to hit one under next next week, I think.

22:53 Speaker 4: But that's like unheard of for us to have through

22:56 Speaker 4: July where it's it's still in the eighties nineties.

22:58 Speaker 1: Wow, And I don't.

23:00 Speaker 3: I don't know if you wed July. It's crazy.

23:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, we had like flooding in the Hill country oh wow,

23:08 Speaker 4: and like they did like it did last year.

23:10 Speaker 1: So oh.

23:10 Speaker 4: But it's interesting because you look at like East Coast

23:13 Speaker 4: and you guys, everyone's been like one hundred and ten

23:15 Speaker 4: and stuff.

23:16 Speaker 2: That's our normal vibe.

23:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we've we've had it easy.

23:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, good, that's that's good. I'm glad for you. Yeah,

23:24 Speaker 1: it has been hot here. Fortunately, I don't mind the heat,

23:26 Speaker 1: so I'm I'm good. I would, uh, I would. You're lucky, Max,

23:31 Speaker 1: I am lucky. I don't. I don't mind it at all.

23:33 Speaker 1: But I wish it was a dryer heat. But even

23:35 Speaker 1: the humidity doesn't bother me that much. But no, I

23:38 Speaker 1: was just curious.

23:39 Speaker 2: We're loving life right now down here.

23:41 Speaker 1: No, that's good, that's excellent, excellent, all right, so we're

23:44 Speaker 1: going to hit this track love Axis again a Claude

23:47 Speaker 1: and Noel, thank you both for joining us today. This

23:49 Speaker 1: has been wonderful and we'll definitely do it again in

23:51 Speaker 1: the future. As you release it, sounds like you've got

23:53 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff coming up, so we'll uh, we'll

23:55 Speaker 1: have you back in the future.

23:56 Speaker 2: I'm sure we'd love to do that.

23:58 Speaker 1: Thank you, Matt, count on it all right, all right,

24:00 Speaker 1: thank you both, take care, have a good day, all right, bye, bye,

24:04 Speaker 1: all right, very good. That is Claude and Noel. The

24:07 Speaker 1: project is animal now I know how to say it correctly,

24:10 Speaker 1: and let's hit this This is another great track. This is

24:13 Speaker 1: called Love Access from Xanimal